Look what he did to his own friend, Telesphorus from Rhodes. He cut off his nose and ears and kept him locked in a cell like some bizarre new animal. The man's hacked and ruined face made him barely look human anymore. Add starvation and the filthy squalor of wallowing in his own waste. His hands and knees grew hard and callused because the tiny space forced him to crawl instead of walk. His sides were covered in sores from scraping against the walls. He looked so horrifying and pitiful that his punishment had turned him into something monstrous — something you couldn't even feel sorry for. But as inhuman as the victim had become, the man who did this to him was even less human.
Why, he mutilated his own friend, Telesphorus the Rhodian, cutting off his nose and ears, and kept him for a long while in a den, like some new and strange animal, after the hideousness of his hacked and disfigured face had made him no longer appear to be human, assisted by starvation and the squalid filth of a body left to wallow in its own dung! Besides this, his hands and knees, which the narrowness of his abode forced him to use instead of his feet, became hard and callous, while his sides were covered with sores by rubbing against the walls, so that his appearance was no less shocking than frightful, and his punishment turned him into so monstrous a creature that he was not even pitied. Yet, however unlike a man he was who suffered this, even more unlike was he who inflicted it.